Martin Amis Quotes
She was sitting there beside the bookcase, trying to read, in a growing panic of self-consciousness. Why? Because reading presupposed a future.Martin Amis
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
Adam Goldberg -
A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.
Hans Frank -
Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.
Dan Lipinski -
I am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.
Oscar de la Renta -
So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under.
Laura Ingalls Wilder -
Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
Barry Commoner
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
R. Lee Ermey -
In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran.
Zaha Hadid -
Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
Mahatma Gandhi -
This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
Ian Fleming -
As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
Tanith Lee -
Australia is an island surrounded by water. My fondest memories growing up were trips to the beach, walking around the harbor and playing in the beautiful parks.
Tammin Sursok
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We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion.
Farley Mowat -
If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!
Kate Beckinsale -
I'm a rock and roll singer.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants -
Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
My mum is from Ghana, and she used to play highlife music in the house, and my dad used to listen to music.
Fleur East -
If I can impact people with my music, that's what I want.
Laura Osnes
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They call, they call me the fat man 'Cause I weight two hundred pounds All the girls they love me 'Cause I know my way around.
Fats Domino -
The value of small business contracting is indisputable. These firms bring healthy competition to the federal market to drive down prices. They are our nation's innovators and job creators, and securing a federal contract helps them grow and offers more benefit to the economy.
Sam Graves -
I think that being read to every night is the reason why I was plowing through volume after volume of 'Nancy Drew' books all by myself by the time I reached the first grade. I loved stories. I loved the escape. I had a vivid imagination.
Rachel Nichols -
From my perspective, probably women are won over by people who are sweet and respectful and courteous and kind and funny. I think those are the things that win women over.
Zooey Deschanel -
They had learned how to listen for the sense of the meeting, not the voice of the loudest. They had learned that they must judge each time whether obedience was necessary and right, or misplaced and wrong. They had learned that the act of violence is the act of weakness, and that the spirit’s strength lies in holding fast to the truth.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
She was sitting there beside the bookcase, trying to read, in a growing panic of self-consciousness. Why? Because reading presupposed a future.
Martin Amis